Review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville Captivate as a Dysfunctional Power Couple in Oedipus
Robert Icke's modern take on Sophocles runs at Studio 54. Pete Hempstead. | Broadway |. November 13, 2025. 398 Lesley Manville in OEDIPUS Photo by ...
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Robert Icke's modern take on Sophocles runs at Studio 54. Pete Hempstead. | Broadway |. November 13, 2025. 398 Lesley Manville in OEDIPUS Photo by ...
Robert Icke's new adaptation of Oedipus is now open on Broadway, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. at Studio 54.
The West End import announces itself as a major Tony Awards player
Lesley Manville won major Best Actress prizes for her "Oedipus" performance in London. Now Broadway gets to see why.
And, of course, there are the British accents so adored by Broadway theatergoers. "Oedipus" opened Thursday at Studio 54 after an Olivier Award-Â ...
Performances are now underway for Robert Icke's new adaptation of Oedipus on Broadway, starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville. The Olivier Award-winning Best Revival production opened on B…
(It's interesting that his last Broadway appearance, in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, also featured him in a modern form of Greek tragedy).
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The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock described the art of suspense as providing the audience with foreknowledge of some terrible event that is about to unfold on unsuspecting characters. We …
That's the premise behind Robert Icke's thrilling (and self-directed) new adaptation of Sophocles' "Oedipus the King," which opened at Broadway's ...
Broadway's new revival of Oedipus, a version the Sophocles tragedy set during a modern election, officially opened at Studio 54 November 13 after ...
A new Broadway version starring Lesley Manville and Mark Strong updates the ancient tragedy into a scintillating political thriller.
These are also, more or less, the salient points of "Oedipus," Sophocles's tragedy, now revamped for Broadway. In the original, Oedipus is already ...
Writer-director Robert Icke's modern retelling of 'Oedipus' opens on Broadway, with Mark Strong and Lesley Manville reprising their acclaimed ...
... , with his starkly intense revival from London starring Lesley Manville and Mark Strong that opened Thursday night at Studio 54 on Broadway.
'Oedipus' Review: Brilliantly Reimagining Sophocles on Broadway · Mark Strong and Lesley Manville star in Robert Icke's smart spin on the Greek tragedy ...
Election night. The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change. Direct from a sold-out, record-breaking, Olivier Award-winning West End run, Sophocles' epic tragedy is …
His Oedipus, while glowing with his usual whip-smart language, doesn't have much fun in the toppling. Each domino falls ("I killed who?! You're my what?") with complete earnestness, and with…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, giving two of this year's great performances, lead a brilliant cast that turns this millennia-old story of pride and familial dysfunction into a timely polit…
It's where we learn her story in all its graphic detail, and though Manville is one hell of an actor"utterly at ease in one moment, ferocious in the next, destroyed in the one after that"eve…
Icke's work is really something: I can't recall ever previously being as riveted at a Greek tragedy. And my admiration for his show is increased by how Icke manages to stay remarkably true t…
The taut spin on "Oedipus" now on Broadway after a West End run last fall is a rare and magnificent feat of adaptation: Writer and director Robert Icke draws Sophocles' ancient play into the…
Mark Strong and Lesley Manville lead the modern take on Sophocles at Studio 54.
Read our review of *Oedipus* on Broadway, director/adapter Robert Icke's modern take on Sophocles's Greek tragedy, starring Mark Strong and Lesley ...
Photos are available of Mark Strong and Lesley Manville in Oedipus on Broadway at Studio 54; This adaptation of the Greek tragedy takes place on ...